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In February 2021, three Higher Regional Courts had to deal with the question of whether and on what legal basis the rents agreed in individual cases are to be temporarily reduced due to the official closure orders during the first lockdown. According to the decisions commented on below, it should be clear that the consequences of the lockdown neither constitute a defect of the lease object nor a case of impossibility, but are to be regulated via the instrument of disturbance of the basis of the contract. However, with regard to the criteria to be applied within the framework of Section 313 of the German Civil Code (BGB), there has not yet been a clear line in the case law of the higher courts.